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The Political Theory of Aristophanes: Explorations in Poetic ...
PreviewMark Kremer (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2004), 4. 6. Kremer, “Introduction,” in Plato's Cleitophon, 4. 7. For an account of Aristophanes' self-understanding and its inadequacies, see Stanley Rosen's explication of Aristophanes' speech in ...
Aristophanes: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide
Oxford University Press▻Biles, Zachary P. 2002. Intertextual biography in the rivalry of Cratinus and Aristophanes. American Journal of Philology 123:169–204. DOI: 10.1353/ajp. 2002.0017 How Aristophanes and Cratinus fought it out on stage by creating their own ...
Aristophanes 1: Clouds, Wasps, Birds
AristophanesPresents translations of three satirical plays along with information on staging, history, religious practice, myths, and issues raised by each play.
Aristophanes' Frogs
Mark GriffithThis book provides an invaluable companion to one of Aristophanes' most cherished works, Frogs.
Aristophanes and the Poetics of Competition
Zachary P. BilesThis book uses that competitive performance context as an interpretive framework within which to understand the thematic interests shaping the plots and poetic quality of Aristophanes' plays in particular, and of Old Comedy in general.
Birds and Other Plays
AristophanesThis is the first complete verse translation of Aristophanes' comedies to appear for more than twenty-five years and makes freshly available one of the most remarkable comic playwrights in the entire Western tradition, complete with an ...
Six Greek comedies
AristophanesThis selection of six wide-ranging plays includes the comic fantasies of Aristophanes, which combine the ridiculous with serious satirical comment (Birds, Frogs, Women in Power); Menander's The Woman from Samos, a recognisable forebear of ...
The Comedies of Aristophanes: The Peace. The Lysistrata. The ...
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The Acharnians
AristophanesThe Acharnians or Acharnians is the third play — and the earliest of the eleven surviving plays — by the Athenian playwright Aristophanes.
Aristophanes and the Cloak of Comedy: Affect, Aesthetics, ...
Mario TelòIn this groundbreaking book, situated within the affective turn in the humanities, Mario Telò explores a vital yet understudied question: how did this view of Aristophanes arise, and why did his popularity eventually eclipse that of his ...
Aristophanes' Comedy of Names: A Study of Speaking Names in ...
Nikoletta KanavouComic names used by Aristophanes for his satirical targets (public figures, everyday Athenians) provide the main subject of this book, which addresses questions such as why particular names are chosen (or invented), and how they relate to ...
Aristophanes, 2: Wasps, Lysistrata, Frogs, The Sexual Congress
AristophanesA volume in the acclaimed Penn Greek Drama Series containing "Wasps," "Lysistrata," "Frogs," and "The Sexual Congress."
Myths of the Underworld Journey: Plato, Aristophanes, and ...
Radcliffe G. Edmonds, IIIThis book was first published in 2004.
Greek Drama
Gwen HunterCovers the development of Greek drama from early religious festivals through to the comedies of Aristophanes and the tragedies of Sophocles.
Aristophanes and the Cloak of Comedy: Affect, Aesthetics, ...
Mario Telò... Reperformance in Ancient Greece,” organized by Anna Uhlig and Richard Hunter, lent an attentive and sympathetic ear to some of the contents of the book. I also want to thank Jim Porter for conversations through the years that, together ...
Socrates and Aristophanes
Leo Strauss"Strauss gives us an impressive addition to his life's work—the recovery of the Great Tradition in political philosophy. The problem the book proposes centers formally upon Socrates.
Aristophanes and the Definition of Comedy
M. S. Silk'Silk succeeds brilliantly, ranging far and wide across the entire spectrum of ancient and modern comedy... Michael Silk has given us much to think about.
Musical!: A Grand Tour : the Rise, Glory, and Fall of an ...
Denny Martin FlinnTraces the history of the musical, from its European roots in Aristophanes, Shakespeare, and "The Beggar's Opera", to American musicals and their offshoots, and finally to its decline over the past two decades
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy
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Socrates on Trial: A Play Based on Aristophanes' Clouds and ...
A. D. Irvine... language has been reworked, although some wording has been incorporated from two separate English-language translations: Ian Johnston's translation of the Clouds (Malaspina University-College, 2004) and Steve Wexler's translation of ...
The Reception of Aeschylus’ Plays through Shifting Models ...
PreviewBiles, Zachary P. “Aeschylus' Afterlife: Reperformance by Decree in 5th-C. Athens ?” Illinois Classical Studies 31–32 (2006–2007): 206–242. Biles, Zachary P. “ Intertextual Biography in the Rivalry of Cratinus and Aristophanes.” American ...
Lysistrata, The Women's Festival, and Frogs
AristophanesAlso by Michael Ewans [anéc'ek's Tragic Operas (Faber, 1977) Wagner and Aeschylus: The Ring and the Oresteia (Faber, 1982) Georg Biichner's Woyzeck ( Peter Lang, 1989) Aeschylus: Oresteia (editor and translator) (I. M. Dent, 1995) ...
Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher
Gregory VlastosIronist and Moral Philosopher Gregory Vlastos. Dover, K. R. (1968). Aristophanes , “Clouds,” Oxford (1974). Greek Popular Morality, Oxford (1978). Greek Homosexuality, Cambridge, Mass. (1983).“The Portrayal ofMoral Evaluationin ...
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